The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.

Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.

People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.

You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.